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fluffing

/ˈflʌfɪŋ/noun, adjective, adverb, verb

fluffing is a noun meaning “The act by which something is fluffed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-F-F-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fluffing is fluffings.

What does fluffing mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is fluffed.

adjective

  1. 1

    slangSubstitute for "fucking".

    That filthy man stole my fluffing purse!

adverb

  1. 1

    slangSubstitute for "fucking".

    Are you fluffing serious? That was a fluffing good sandwich!

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of fluff (a form of fluff)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fluffing?

  • /ˈflʌfɪŋ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fluffing

  • fluffings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fluffing?

Fluffing appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 87,317th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).